Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("Company" or "Kraig Labs"), a global leader in engineered spider silk ...

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

Known for its unmatched relative strength and flexibility, which could find uses in novel textiles, spider silk has long eluded efficient synthetic replication, in part because it has been ...

Spider webs combine complex principles of physics and chemistry to create one of the world's most remarkable substances. We explain how.

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn't just help the spider release the silk, it's also a crucial step in ...

When their collaboration to produce recombinant spider silk proteins in yeast yielded promising results, the duo decided to challenge the status quo in the textile industry by commercially producing ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...

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Kowa jointly developed the textile with the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), which has expertise in silkworms. Bagworm silk is said to be even more durable than spider silk.

Of the 50,000 or so known spider species, most of them do not spin webs. They still produce silk though, and they use it for some of the other purposes we have outlined above. Spiders who do not ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the ...